J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400–1400:
Selections from an American Collection
March 19 - 31, 2007
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A LONGQUAN CELADON BRONZE-FORM TRIPOD CENSER
Southern Song - Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
of well-potted shallow circular form with short convex sides resting on three splayed columnar legs ending in rounded feet and deeply hollowed on the interior, the wide mouth with rounded everted lip supporting a pair of twist-fluted ‘D’-shaped handles, covered inside and out with a bluish-green glaze of even tone, the underside centered with an unglazed ring for support in the firing and the exposed stoneware around the edge of the ring showing a tan-colored surface shading to orangey-brown at the margins.
Width 5 inches (12.7 cm)
Exhibited at The China Institute in America and illustrated in the catalogue by Lee, Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art, New York, 2001, no. 37c, p. 132.
A Longquan celadon censer of similar form with applied florets around the sides, together with two censers of the same form, decorated with florets and diaper pattern, recovered from a Chinese ship which sank in 1323 off the coast of Korea, are illustrated in the catalogue entitled Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, no. 77 and nos. 268 and 269. Another celadon censer of very similar form, also decorated with florets in relief around the sides, excavated at Gongcun, Longquan city in 1980, and now in the Longquan Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Yuan, Vol. 10 (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Yuan), Shanghai, 2000, no. 4, p. 38, with caption on p. 212.
26.
A LONGQUAN CELADON BRONZE-FORM TRIPOD CENSER
Southern Song - Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
Width 5 inches (12.7 cm)